Shannon Sharpe

“President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.”

“Some guys get on the road, the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.”

“I've said numerous times the hardest job in America isn't being a professional athlete. It's not being a matador or having some job that puts your life at risk. The hardest job in America is...”

“You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotte...”

“I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.”

“Bill Belichick makes it real easy for you to root against the Patriots.”

“I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.”

“I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.”

“I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.”

“Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.”

“I was born in the 1960s. I came up in the 1970s. I know how race relations were. The thing is, I want to advance the ball and never return to those days again. I want to keep the topic going...”

“When I went to the Pro Bowl, I went as a tight end. When I made the All Pro team, I made it as a tight end. When they introduced us and I ran out of the tunnel, they introduced me as a tight...”

“I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.”

“Peyton Manning is funny, hence the 'Saturday Night Live'; you see him in his commercials. He's funny.”

“When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.”

“I'm big on green veggies: arugula, spinach, and kale.”

“I really carried that seventh-round tag with me my whole career, even at the end.”

“I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.”

“In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.”

“I think with lean cuts of chicken and beef, fish, turkey, ground beef and bison, you can't go wrong with those.”